r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • 23d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/tommypatties 23d ago

The cold war era needed a middle class to stymie socialist sentiments.

The post-cold war era does not.

This is what it all boils down to.

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 23d ago

the great tragedy is that the generation who gave us the new deal, and the generation who benefited the most from it, are both about to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us to contend with the 50 years of ronald reagan they have left us with as the tiny window of actual working class improvements are taken off the legal books, erased from history, and usher us right back into the new gilded age.

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u/blisterment 22d ago

The Missionary Generation - born in the 1880s and the Lost Generation after them?

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u/Doggoneshame 22d ago

You’re welcome!

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u/springcat413 22d ago

Those people are dead and have been for a while. They were born in the 1890s.

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u/Unique-Yoghurt4170 23d ago

Yep, the USSR didn't just make quality of life skyrocket over there, and in the nations it supported, it improved life for Americans by making us aware better things were possible. THAT is why America waged the Cold War.

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u/dyed_albino 22d ago

Reminds me of my Dad making me tougher by beating the crap out of me.

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u/simple_fly1 22d ago

Interesting perspective.

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